IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Rybarcyk, L.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOEPPB012	High-performance Beam Simulator for the LANSCE Linac	103
	X. Pang, S.A. Baily, L. Rybarcyk LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: U.S. Dept. of Energy, NNSA under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396. The LANSCE accelerator complex is a multi-beam facility that provides high-intensity H⁺ and H⁻ particle beams for a variety of user programs. At the heart of the facility is a room temperature linac that is comprised of a 100-MeV drift tube linac and an 800-MeV coupled cavity linac. During beam operations, linac parameters are adjusted to maintain minimal beam spill, but without detailed knowledge of the beam distribution. A more desirable situation would be one where knowledge of the beam distribution along the linac is available to aid in the optimization of the linac operation and beam performance. We are presently developing a high performance simulator that will provide valuable information about the beam distribution in pseudo real-time during linac operations. The heart of the simulator is based upon the multiparticle beam dynamics code PARMILA, but implemented in C++ using NVIDIA’s CUDA technology for Graphics Processing unit (GPU) hardware. Linac operating set points will be provided by the EPICS control system so that changes are tracked and the simulation results updated automatically. Details regarding the approach, benefits and performance will be presented.

THPPP067	H⁻ Beam Loss and Evidence for Intrabeam Stripping in the LANSCE Linac	3892
	L. Rybarcyk, C.T. Kelsey, R.C. McCrady, X. Pang LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: U.S. Dept. of Energy, NNSA, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396. The LANSCE accelerator complex is a multi-beam, multi-user facility that provides high-intensity H⁺ and H⁻ particle beams for a variety of user programs. At the heart of the facility is a room temperature linac that is comprised of 100-MeV drift tube and 800-MeV coupled cavity linac (CCL) structures. Although both beams are similar in intensity and emittance, the beam-loss monitors along the CCL show a trend of increased loss for H⁻ that is not present for H⁺. This difference is attributed to stripping mechanisms that affect H⁻ and not H⁺. We present the results of an analysis of H⁻ beam loss along the CCL that incorporates beam spill measurements, beam dynamics simulations, analytical models and radiation transport estimates using the MCNPX code. The results indicate a significant fraction of these additional losses result from intrabeam stripping.

THPPR067	A Conceptual 3-GeV LANSCE Linac Upgrade for Enhanced Proton Radiography	4130
	R.W. Garnett, F.E. Merrill, J.F. O'Hara, D. Rees, L. Rybarcyk, T. Tajima, P.L. Walstrom LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396 A conceptual design of a 3-GeV linac upgrade that would enable enhanced proton radiography at LANSCE is presented. The upgrade is based on the use of superconducting accelerating cavities to increase the present LANSCE linac output energy from 800 MeV to 3 GeV. The LANSCE linac at Los Alamos National Laboratory currently provides H⁻ and H⁺ beams to several user facilities that support Isotope Production, NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, and Basic Energy Science programs. Required changes to the front-end and to the RF systems to meet the new performance goals, and changes to the existing beam switchyard to maintain operations for a robust user program are also described.

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High-performance Beam Simulator for the LANSCE Linac

103

X. Pang, S.A. Baily, L. Rybarcyk
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: U.S. Dept. of Energy, NNSA under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.
The LANSCE accelerator complex is a multi-beam facility that provides high-intensity H⁺ and H⁻ particle beams for a variety of user programs. At the heart of the facility is a room temperature linac that is comprised of a 100-MeV drift tube linac and an 800-MeV coupled cavity linac. During beam operations, linac parameters are adjusted to maintain minimal beam spill, but without detailed knowledge of the beam distribution. A more desirable situation would be one where knowledge of the beam distribution along the linac is available to aid in the optimization of the linac operation and beam performance. We are presently developing a high performance simulator that will provide valuable information about the beam distribution in pseudo real-time during linac operations. The heart of the simulator is based upon the multiparticle beam dynamics code PARMILA, but implemented in C++ using NVIDIA’s CUDA technology for Graphics Processing unit (GPU) hardware. Linac operating set points will be provided by the EPICS control system so that changes are tracked and the simulation results updated automatically. Details regarding the approach, benefits and performance will be presented.

THPPP067

H⁻ Beam Loss and Evidence for Intrabeam Stripping in the LANSCE Linac

3892

L. Rybarcyk, C.T. Kelsey, R.C. McCrady, X. Pang
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: U.S. Dept. of Energy, NNSA, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.
The LANSCE accelerator complex is a multi-beam, multi-user facility that provides high-intensity H⁺ and H⁻ particle beams for a variety of user programs. At the heart of the facility is a room temperature linac that is comprised of 100-MeV drift tube and 800-MeV coupled cavity linac (CCL) structures. Although both beams are similar in intensity and emittance, the beam-loss monitors along the CCL show a trend of increased loss for H⁻ that is not present for H⁺. This difference is attributed to stripping mechanisms that affect H⁻ and not H⁺. We present the results of an analysis of H⁻ beam loss along the CCL that incorporates beam spill measurements, beam dynamics simulations, analytical models and radiation transport estimates using the MCNPX code. The results indicate a significant fraction of these additional losses result from intrabeam stripping.

THPPR067

A Conceptual 3-GeV LANSCE Linac Upgrade for Enhanced Proton Radiography

4130

R.W. Garnett, F.E. Merrill, J.F. O'Hara, D. Rees, L. Rybarcyk, T. Tajima, P.L. Walstrom
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: Work supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396
A conceptual design of a 3-GeV linac upgrade that would enable enhanced proton radiography at LANSCE is presented. The upgrade is based on the use of superconducting accelerating cavities to increase the present LANSCE linac output energy from 800 MeV to 3 GeV. The LANSCE linac at Los Alamos National Laboratory currently provides H⁻ and H⁺ beams to several user facilities that support Isotope Production, NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, and Basic Energy Science programs. Required changes to the front-end and to the RF systems to meet the new performance goals, and changes to the existing beam switchyard to maintain operations for a robust user program are also described.